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Re:She Texted About Dinner While Driving. Then a Pedestrian ... by oil25 on Friday November 22, 2019 @06:16PM (#21611138)
What's the penalty? It ought to be equivalent to a DUI, given the impairment is similar if not worse from phone distraction at the wheel.
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Re:She Texted About Dinner While Driving. Then a Pedestrian ... by mindslight on Friday November 22, 2019 @07:25PM (#21611514)
Driving drunk is safer than texting. With DUI, at least your reaction time is just scaled by a certain amount. Whereas when inputting something with a touchscreen, your road attention completely disappears for imperceptible spurts of time.
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